[13661] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7R: machtype
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Dvornik)
Fri Jul 14 15:19:30 1995
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:19:19 EDT
From: Albert Dvornik <bert@MIT.EDU>
System name: m2-032-5
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7R (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Check the CPU type on a SPARCstation 5.
What's wrong:
machtype lies:
% machtype -c
SPARC/Classic
% machtype -c -v
SPARCstation Classic
(see also "Type anv version:" line, above)
What should have happened:
If possible, machtype should return the correct answer:
% machtype -c
SPARC/5
% machtype -c -v
SPARCstation 5
If this is impossible, and no one comes up with a less
misleading answer, this "feature" should at least be documented.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
The machtype(1) man page does not allow Sun machines to
acknowledge their existence:
-c Print the specific cpu type, one of VAX780, VAX750,
VAX730, VAX8600, VAX8200, MVAX-II, VAXSTAR, CVAXSTAR,
or VAX650 (on a VAX), RTPC-ROMPC, RTPC-SGP, RTPC-
MOD135, IBM-ATR (on an IBM RT/PC), KN01 (on a Decsta-
tion 3100), KN02 (DS 5000), KN210 (DS 5400), KN220
(DS5500), KN02ba (DS5000/100), KN02ca (DS5000/25; "Max-
ine"), KN??? (unknown decstation) or POWER (on a IBM
RISC/6000).
Please list any other disparaging remarks about the source code, which
we'll probably ignore because you are spewing anyway:
I realize that Real Programmers never, ever write those
time-wasting "if" statements when the answer can be
conveniently hard-coded into the binary, but this pushing it:
do_dpy(kernel, mf)
char *kernel;
int mf;
{
puts(verbose? "cgthree frame buffer" : "cgthree");
return;
}
(taken from /afs/dev/source/src80/athena/bin/machtype/machtype_sol.c)
